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For an experience built around the communities of music festivals and visionaries of SpaceX, NASA, the United Nations, Disney, Burning Man, Stanford, and more transformative organizations, the curators of Iceland Eclipse, Secret Solstice and IMXP are preparing an extended stay on the Snæfellsnes Peninsula. While totality is on the 12th of August, people will be setting up shop and settling into living in Iceland for 10 days or more.

“The lightning is officially out of the bottle…” | photo cred: Jess Gallo @helloatlasmedia Buena Vista Lake Campground, CA | May 20 – 24, 2026 The 22nd Lightning in a Bottle festival returned to Buena Vista Lake Memorial Day Weekend and the lightning is officially out of the bottle. With the first completely sold out crowd in a decade since their teenage years, reaching 30,000 people strong, the milestone is well-earned and worth celebrating.

Lightning in a Bottle 2026 photos Sara Landry credit Turo Lightning in a Bottle has always been more than staggering psychedelic stages and pristine sound systems. Its greatest art installation has always been its people – artists in their own right who are present and expressive to their heart’s desire. Within this temporary city of dancing dreamers, curious misfits, artists & adventurers, and wandering weirdos, authenticity becomes its own form of expression.

This one ends where the first one started. Whethan closes the loop on WAREHOUSE.WAVS2 with a remix of ’23’ by Mike Will Made-It, Miley Cyrus, and Juicy J — a nod back to the Juicy J flip that opened the first installment with ‘A Zip and a Double Cup‘, and its just as addictive as well as available for a free download. The Chicago producer’s second WAVs drop includes some of the best deep bass music lately, which proved to resonate during his bassPOD takeover at EDC Las Vegas 2026.

Lightning in a Bottle returned to Buena Vista Lake for its 22nd edition over Memorial Day Weekend, drawing a sold-out crowd of 30,000 dancing dreamers, curious misfits, artists & adventurers, and wandering weirdos, into one of the most imaginative and immersive gatherings in North America. The first thing most people notice about Lightning in a Bottle is the color. Dripping neon dreamscapes. Kinetic architectural stages. Roaming Art Cars drifting through the endless night like moving constellations.

As we ‘X’ out the days leading up to dipping into the forest for Elements Festival 2026, the stage and daily lineups, as well as Thursdays pre-party lineup and fire stage rendering that have been revealed with artist such as Wankdat (Crankdat b2b Wooli), Mersiv, Chris Lorenzo, Ardalan and so many more set to make for 4-nights and 3-days to never forget.

The first time most people heard it, TroyBoi slipped it into a set at Miami Music Week with no announcement and no warning. Then Daya walked out. The crowd figured it out fast. ‘HUSH’ moves slow on purpose. The slow-tempo trap beat sits low and patient while Daya’s ethereal pop sensibilities shine.

Spring Frequency Long-running SoCal-based psytrance crew PsyTribe is moving their 20th Anniversary psychedelic campout “Spring Frequency” to the Sequoia Forest on the full moon from Friday, May 29 to Sunday, May 31 and their lineup is stacked.

What is an essential house music track? Releases in the essential house music archive can always trusted in a set, those tracks DJs retreat to; the no brainers. As we started compiling this collection of the best house music many years ago, there are more releases that can be shared within a reasonably lengthened article.

Shadow Wulf, Pulse California & Soulestial Carnival Collaboration Downtown Los Angeles | Saturday, April 11, 2026 Even from the door at Darkside Ascension – a position I rarely fill after years behind the scenes, but did with humility as I re-enter the scene as a sober supporter rather than the Soulestial leader I’ve often been in the past – I could hear and feel the thick vibes of an event that has elevated to a new level.